Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-21 | Page 5 | C. E. Lecturer Gives Address on "Word of God Found Practical"

I I. I It In I 1 i. i Jj J I 1 5 1 II 41 j I v i l U LI UI I UJ I 1 i l a. V V i iii 1 N J APRIL jJ j L C. C E. E Lecturer Gives Address On Word of God Found Practical The Word ord of 01 God Found Practical tic l was the subject of a lecture delivered James by-James G. G Rowell Howell C. C S. S of Kansas City member of f the Christian Science board of ot l lectureshIp lectureship lecture lecture- ship of the mother church the First Church of Chi Christ 1st Scientist Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day night before pOO persons at the Second church on East South Temple Tem rem plo street With religious zeal Dr Rowell Howell launched into his his' subject with the first text teu Immortal Mind vs Mortal Mind Ho He said The ThI author of the Christian Science textbook round Cound it difficult to explain tier her n new w spiritual discovery by the tho use of or material terms whose limited mortal significance hood had become deeply Imbedded Im hot hot- bedded In thought Sloe She adopted 1 therefore therefore there there- fore the pra practice of many many man writers of d de defining defining de- de fining her specific use uso of certain terms lerms Tb distinction between the terms mortal Mind Shad meaning God clod and d mind meaning that which is opposed d to God Illustrates tel the point Let it be understood that Christian Science does not leach that there are two different contending minds forever at variance with wHit each beh other Christian Science teaches on the other hand hanoi that God Immortal Mind i is the th ono one and only Mind ln Tile The e term mortal mind Is ha II used to explain PIt a an erm Illusion s a delusion lo loaa as aa anything must Immediately be de detected tie tie- to be which even en seems leema to 10 oppose Itself to omnipotence an and en ence ene In In defining God as immortal Mind Christian Science S does not present a anew anew new God but It does doea bring to 10 light a atrue atrue true conception of the ono forever foreve changeless God whom to l know now aright a as Mrs Sirs Eddy eay In Science clence and Health page vII Ia 15 Life eternal This Mind God the Mind that was In Christ Jesus JestS but which Is III only otly partially r rec recognized rec- rec c- c and very Imperfectly understood by men inca generally Mrs Sirs Eddy spelled with a a. capital M l' l and aft'S often c coupled It with adjectives expressing s the del deifiC fie nature such as Immortal divine In in- in tin finite Ite The false sense o of mind believing In vii as aa well weH as I In good Mrs Edd found to be a liar Hat and the father of lies' lies and named it mortal mind Christian Chris tian Science reveals that the lie troubles s sot of ot mankind Including sin sin ln sickness and l death are directly traceable to a false concept of ot God or roUnd Mind and Aud that the right understanding of ot Him the establishment in human consciousness of ot that Mind which Is hi as says Of Purer eyes than to behold evil restores h health lt holiness and eventually the k kingdom of heaven The teaching of Christian SI Science nee that hat t a. a change from freon a a. state of disease tp t to o one of ease front from Imperfection to p perfection cllon Is he due to a change In thinking think think- 1 ing Int though startling is Ia not a new C Christian hristian doctrine That Christ Jesus taught aught t and practiced it is shown In all t tb the he healing work he did It was stated slated b by y Paul in iii these words worda To be carnally minded is ia Is' Is death but to be spiritually m mI minded Is life and peace We Ve also read I In n Proverbs Proverb 23 7 as he a aman man e eth th In his heart so Is he It Is necessary s sary ary to grasp grup the difference between mortal mind and Immortal Mind With t this his difference definitely ly established one c can an with certainty build upon the firm f foundation o of one Mind divine anu am wholly good If we look at a a. white rose through a piece of ot blue glass glasa the rose TOGe itself appears to b be blue But the rose In fact is white and not blue and no one t thinks hinks ot doing anything to the rose rOlle roseo roseto t to o bring u tt t back to its Ita original white white- ness We have havo but to 10 change the glass through which we look to one of or clear ciCar transparency and we see the rose a aIt as asIt asit It really is os J Every very one knows that the tile color is In iii the glass gIua not in the rose To one who looks through the lens iena of ot mortal mind at creation man appears to be material mortal sick lIck and sinful To one Instructed In Christian Science and accustomed to using th the clear lens of ot divine Mind It ItIs Itis iti i is apparent that nothing has to be done to Gods God perfect man to bring him back to his original perfection U If one s seems ems to see a material mortal mor mor- tat tal sick and sinful man man one needs but butto butto to 10 awaken to the fact that he lie i is being deceived by the mortal mind lens through which he be Is looking As seen lieEn through divine Mind Gods God's perfect changeless idea man ovll be found forever the same ume Through reason and tend revelation conviction Is reached that the imperfections so liO apparent are in the tIle I In ns of ot mortal mind and neither in Mind God nor In man A false sense of ot mind can never see God nor the man of ot God Gods God's s creating Whatever It s sees es M Is distorted and colored by its own unreal bu hue hus A universe in which good and ovil ovll unite Is th the way mortal mind sees that of ot which the Bible says And AndI I God saw everything that lie Ie had hall m made ae tand and behold It was very good Gen 1 hil 31 A mortal man sick lck sInful and dying ia Is the way mortal morIa I mind thinks of ot Gods God's perfect indestructible child of ot whom the Bible says So ho God created man in his own Image In the Image of ot God created be he him Gen I 27 A Agod Agod Agod god with a a. finite material body a a. god of of anger one who sends flood lood fire and pestilence upon hl his defenseless creation this i Is th the way mortal mind thinks of the e one Infinitely I good God Cod the creator a of ot whom tire the Bible blos speaks a as Spirit and andas aa as Love Christian Science presents a a. way out of this tins seeming conflict between real Mind and Its Us counterfeit mortal mind It says sayi of the divine Mind that it is la the only Mind that It is real and true and embraces in all that is In Included In in- eluded In infinite Intelligence On page of ot Science and Health we read If mortal mInd knew hw to o be better betler It wo would ld be better betler The way out then is no mysterious rous process at a 1 aU all hn but a simple Thatter ot of Instructing with truth the lie truth that there la is but one Mind and that Ihal one Wholly good nave have you OU ever known of a selfish beIng Valued Into an ono What became ot of his unselfish selfishness It disappeared it gave place to unselfishness There we say Wo e have It mortal mind so Instructed that W td I it Iama an with immortal mo truth Ilind when found mortal o to be the only hind And J mind yield to tito tho divine Mind a a. better sense ot of health Is the natural The Ultimate result re- re suit sult of thus Is III salvation serving divine God heaven the reign o of coon com and perfect harmony Prayer Is the key Which opens Open the door to Cc spiritual freedom In Christian Science pra er is III not used as 1111 a means for fOl attempting to to change God dod Christian or ills Scientists the utter re reCurs futility ot of ch sn an attempt The Tue Bible speaks ot of God with whom Is no neither shadow Ing JI Hl universe like of turn turn- hum Him la is forever the same Prayer does doea change mortals mortal's false beliefs about God and d iii creation and thereby heals the sICk comforts the sorrowing and causes causes- the form Because It spirItualIzes sinner to re- re con conscioUsness ra et 1 18 essential human buman to growth There Is no ito problem top too sma-II sma or too great to be solved by earnest pe prayer In fact laet the a man Is the more certain le he Is to 10 take every circumstance ot of his experIence to God in t to o be guided aright prayer and Prayer Js is not red simply Ie e. c cause ause it may be addressed to GOd Those who ho w want to prayer should e earnestly ff seek to rid themselves of self love l ove self will an ant and lei self justification T Then hen they will win be able to pray the tho p rayer that nev r falls fails of an not my ills' will but boot thIne bo be done answer Gods God's w will ill Is done in I IIi universe The Psalm Psalm- 1st 1 st pleads thou mine eyes evolI that I behold wondrous things t th la law out or of hy Psalms 18 RIghteous Oua p prayer rayer to 10 God Is answered through His u unchanging ul laws When p pray ray ht arll I is III when our deVes desires we oo are re ir in harmony with GO Orals Gods II will our p prayers are ore answer answered d. d When we rr v a amiss that It ha Is when ou our our desires pray raf are c contrary to Gods God's will our prayers re re- re remain main But honest earnest u unselfish effort eVen en though i it t may Y seem to be erring at first will vill e eventually bring us Into harmony with Gods GodlI williSe will We iSe should be gr grateful to know that Gods God's ever er active anti and always ahva's loving 10 l laws aws iv will at length c compel very every stubborn stubborn stub stub- born human will win to bend to His Ills every s selfish elfish false sense senn of ot love lo to be cleansed and p purified until at last Gods God's kingdom king king- d dom doni oni is seen to be bo In earth Carth rth as It Is la in heaven haven AVe We e enter th the thC kingdom o or of hen heaven yen through prayer Righteous pra prayer raer er Is la not laborious or forced It ut i Is a a. spontaneous joyous e condition of or t thought hought born of ot the understanding that I l man Is the image reflection of ot God Goti and andRS andas andna na RS such has not root a single thought un- un derived from him Prayer would en encourage encourage en en- courage sinners in sin if it It enabled them to avoid a the consequences ot of their wrong thoughts and acts by merely turn ing to God I asking for relief Prayer must be a. a accompanied by willingness to o be ba obedient to ones one's highest sense ot or right no matter how trying the ell clr nets LI G n He through prayer er Is Ii practiced In Christian Science Christian Science however er is not merely a a. system for the healing heading of ot clist disease se It Is Isa Isa isa a restatement of or primitive ive Christianity which includes the locating healing I r s so called physical dl disease ease a among mong it its redemptive works The real purpose of or Christianity and therefore of or hn S Science Ien e Is the overcoming of sin and the final attainment of all like God-like qualities and conditions a a. complete redemption of mankind from rom belief in evil IJ as presence and power The Tho locating healing of or disease Is 15 Important It i ia Is a a. wa wayside de sign cf et progress In the journey and gives one a a. feeling of peace and assur c assurance lice ance that lie he Is on the he right road That Christian Science nce does heal ih the sIck stok k Is patent to any fair minded In- In The TIle testimonies of h healing In the Christian Science Sentinel alone aggregate around live five hundred 5 early yearly and these the have haye all li been en investigated and end attested led Add Acid to these those printed In the Christian Science Journal monthly and the hundreds given at the two thousand thou thou- II stood sand midweek meetings mec of ot tho the Christian Science churches and societies f t the world and t to 1 these the tho unnumbered thousands which have never ne been voiced In any public and a R great paean of ot praise rises in gratitude to divine love lo There Thee are critics who protest that Christian Science lays too much stress upon the thc be healing of physical disease Lying back of or this his criticism Is ignorance failure to r recognize the origin of disease aa se mental me To these critics disease uIe Is III of material origin the tIle result of ot accident of ot germs ge of ot exposure to tho tue weather or of quality or quantity of roe roe-i. etc Ie Mrs Eddy says on 01 page of Science cl nce and Health The procuring cause and form foun Jun dalton dation of sit aJl sickness is fear or 01 sin a Disease e is always Induced ry ty a false alse sense mentally entertained not de tie- Disease is an all Image Imae of thought externalized Christian Science heals disease by healing helling the patient of ot tho the erroneous s thoughts which produced it n. This Titis it II does doCa on the basis bas of the tire allness of of f God fled and its lis correlative sequel the nothing ness flees of ot evil This Is true healing in in- in deed dee healing which in every very case is io o doing Its lis bit to wipe out the foundation of all aU disease By their fruits ye ie shall know v them eald said Jesus Jero Christian I irI- irI rl I ence enee stands 1 judgment on this ua exacting Ung but eJ Just juet hints basis 1 I I I